Combined grain and grass seeder.



Patenfed Oct. l0, I899. w. F. HOYT.

COMBINED GRAIN AN (Applicatio flied D GRASS SEEDER.

11 June 10, 1899 (No Model.)

NITED STATES ATENT Erica.

VVIL L HOYT, OF DOWVAGIAO, MICHIGAN.

COMBINED GRAIN AND GRASS SEEDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,460, dated October 10, 1899.

Application filed. June 10,1899. Serial No. 720,045. (No model.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILL F. I-IOYT, a citizen of-the United States,residin'g at Dowagiac,

Michigan, haveinvented certain new and use-v ful Improvements in a Combined Grain and Grass Seeder, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to that class of mechanisms which are adapted to be'used in connection with awheeled vehicle for the purpose of sowing grain or grass seed, either singlyor in combination with each other, and will be more fully hereinafter described.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple, economical, and efficient combined grain and grass seeder; and the invention consists in the features, combinations, and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing the figure is a perspective view of m y improvements, show-- ing how they appear when attached to the body of a wheeled vehicle and in condition for use.

In illustrating. and describing my invention I only illustrate and describe what I consider to be new, taken in connection with so much as is old as may be necessary to properly disclose the invention and enable those skilled in the art to practice the same, leaving out of consideration other and wellknown mechanisms which if illustrated and described herein would only tend to confusion, prolixity, and ambiguity.

In constructing my improvements and assembling them in position for use I provide a grain-box A,which is provided with a grainfeed, the casing B of which is shown in the drawing having a revoluble shaft 11 therein and which shaft is provided with a grain-feeding attachment in the shape a star-wheel, (not shown,) which rotates adjacent to the casing and permits the grain to feed regularly and in uniform quantities into the graintube C, which guides it into the rubber conductor O and from there through the shoes, (not shown,) being an ordinary type of seeder and which is well known in the art.

In order to provide means by which grassseed may be sown with the grain, or sown in rows separately, or sown broadcast, as may be desired, I providea grass-seed box '1),

secured to the body of the vehicle in any desired manner, which is adapted to hold the requisite quantity of grass-seed. Arranged adjacent to the discharge-opening (Z of the grass-seed box is the grass-seed feed comprising a boot or casing E, arranged immediately under the discharge-opening and which is provided with a discharge-openings on the lower surface thereof. To discharge grassseed at regular intervals of time and in uniform quantities, a feed-wheel G is provided and mounted upon the revoluble shaft g, hav ing its hearings in the boot portion and adapted to be rotated by some movable part of the vehicle. This feed-wheel, as shown in.the drawing, has its serrated or toothed periphery at the lower part of the boot or casing, so that when the casing is filled with grass-seed or receiving the same and during the rotations of the feed-wheel uniform quantities of grass-seed are fed into the discharge-tube II at regular intervals of time and through which the seed is guided to the rubber conductor O. This feeding of the grass-seed, as above noted, can take place simultaneously with the grain or independently thereof, or the discharge-tube H can be removed and the grass-seed sown broadcast at the same time the grain is being sown or at different times.

The discharge-tube for the grass-seed is held at its upper or receiving end by a yoke or stirrup 72/, secured to the grain-box or other support on the frame of the machine. The tube is held loosely-in this yoke or stirrup, so that its upper or receiving end can be slipped therefrom and the tube removed or detached for sowing broadcast. The lower end of this discharge-tube is provided with a ring it to encircle the conductor 0' and support the tube when connected with the conthrough the casing or boot and has its supply cut oil? as the apex or edge of its following rib or liute comes to a point where it meets the face of the casing or boot, leaving the recess or cup filled with a measured quantity of seed. Each recess or cup as it reaches the edge of the discharge-opening e deposits its seed to pass through the discharge-opening, and with the discharge or feed spout H in position as shown in the drawing and the grainsowing attachment in operation the deposited grass-seed passes down the discharge or feed spout to commingle with the grain in the leg or conductor, sowing grain and grass-seed simultaneously and conjointly.

The grain-sowing attachment can be cut out or the hopper thereof be left unfilled and the grass-seed-sowing attachment left independently operative, and in this condition grass-seed alone will be sown, the seed enter-1 ing the discharge or feed spout and passing to the leg or conductor and thence to the ground. The grain-sowing attachment can be made inoperative and the grass-seed-sowing attachment be left operative, and the upper end of the spout or discharge-tube therefor can be detached from its suspending stirrup or loop and swung to one side or wholly removed from beneath the casing or boot, and in this condition the seed from each cup or recess successively will pass through the discharge-opening and be sown broadcast.

with the grass-seed-sowing attachment, sub-.

stantially as described.

The combination in a seeding mechanism of a grain-sowing attachment, a grassseed-sowiug attachment, a discharge and conductor for the grain-sowing attachment, a discharge-tube for the grass-seed-sowin g attachment, a yoke or stirrup supporting such discharge-tube adjacent to the discharge of the attachment, and a ring encircling the conductor and supporting the delivery end of the discharge-tube, substantially as described.

Witnesses:

O. SCHMALZREID, E. MCMASTER. 

